There was a burst of gunfire, and veteran Xu Guangzu swung his whip aggressively and began to beat the newly trained recruits one by one:
"Bastard! Why are your hands shaking? Look where you hit me!"
"Didn't you fucking listen to the boss explain the essentials of shooting? You just know how to waste food!"
"And you, do you know why I beat you? You are the only one in the whole team who can hit accurately. Why don't you teach more brothers in the team? If they don't hit well, you will look like a god, right? Stop being a soldier.
Become the captain for me! Then who, don’t be the captain, learn to shoot the gun accurately first."
"..."
The soldiers stood still one by one, accepting Xu Guangzu's beatings with sincerity. They all understood that Xu Guangzu was measured in his attacks. Those who made big mistakes were beaten hard; those who made small mistakes were beaten lightly; as for those who did not do anything at all
That's right, Xu Guangzu would also give him a whip, but basically it just meant dusting off the opponent.
Xu Guangzu trained the new recruits very strictly. Everyone was afraid of him and respected him. After a period of training, everyone knew that this uncle-level swindler actually had a cruel face and a kind heart. He cursed people very harshly, but treated every soldier with dignity.
He was very concerned about him. Naturally, everyone called him Mr. Qian on the training ground. In private, they imitated Lord Guard and called him Uncle Xu, or Old Man Xu, or even Granny Xu...
Half of these recruits were brought by Su Hao from various branches of Huai'an Guards, and the other half were farmers' children recruited from various states and counties in Huai'an Prefecture. The people of Huai'an Prefecture suffered greatly from the powerful and Japanese pirates. Su Hao
He led his troops to defeat the Japanese pirates, frightened the powerful, and gained a great reputation. Young people who were willing to serve as soldiers in Kanyu Camp gathered from all directions and almost collapsed the gate of Kanyu Camp.
In order to pry people away from the Huai'an Guards, Su Hao visited Li Shida once and made this request to him. Li Shida felt a little sad about Su Hao poaching the best sergeants under his command, but in the end he still showed his willingness to
With a look of reluctance, he nodded and let him go.
News from the capital showed that Su Hao was favored by Wanli, Wang Xijue and Wang Yi'e, and his age had an absolute advantage. He was a potential stock with great advantages. How could Li Shida not invest here?
In addition, Su Hao gave Li Shida a big share of the credit for defeating the Japanese pirates this time. Afterwards, he also gave Li Shida more than a dozen treasures and antiques collected from the Japanese pirates' lair. Thinking of these benefits, Li Shida could not refuse Su Hao.
Hao's request.
In fact, it doesn't matter to Li Shida whether these guard sergeants are elite or not. In his opinion, the better the soldiers are, the more irritating they are. If Su Hao wants it, just let him take it. The land of the military camp is limited.
Yes, if some people leave, the remaining people can at least live a more prosperous life.
Su Hao was not too greedy. He knew that recruiting too many soldiers at once would be impossible, so each of the three divisions under the battalion only recruited 60% of the quota, and the remaining quota would be added later.
The firearms department has recruited more than 500 people. Xu Guangzu temporarily served as the general manager, and Xiong Minyang became the general manager and was also responsible for serving as the firearms instructor. The other firearms instructor in the firearms camp is Chen Guanyu. This veteran has been training hard for more than half a year.
His marksmanship can now be regarded as a sharpshooter. In addition, he prepared the earliest jar of nitroglycerine in Kanyu Camp, so he also has some experience in blasting technology.
After the first batch of flintlock guns were sent to the Su Industrial Park in the capital, the firearms camp began live ammunition training. This batch of flintlock guns was different from the guns that Su Hao had asked the Hao family to make before. The previous guns were used for
For self-defense, they are all short guns, but this batch was used for field battles, so they were all changed to long guns.
The muskets used in the Ming Dynasty army were originally divided into long muskets and short muskets. Compared with the muskets, Su Hao's flintlock gun has only two differences. One is the flintlock ignition method, and the other is loading from the breech. Of course,
These two differences are revolutionary changes that comprehensively improve the firing speed of the firecracker, allowing it to exert greater power on the battlefield.
At Su Hao's prompt, Luo Yuqing developed a propellant based on yellow explosives, which increased the range of the flintlock gun to nearly 500 meters, and could form a killing capability within 300 meters. Compared with the previous range of about 150 meters
The performance of the "shotguns" on the left and right has been more than doubled.
As a veteran of the battlefield, Xu Guangzu was sensitive to the impact of improvements in firearms on battlefield combat patterns. He carried forward the three-stage shooting method that had been used in the army as early as the early Ming Dynasty, and combined it with traditional formations
, created a combat formation called the "gun platoon", which can use a unit of about 900 troops to provide continuous fire coverage to a front up to 2 miles wide.
Su Hao had specially visited the training of the firearms camp. He originally planned to introduce to Xu Guangzu the combat methods of the Prussian army. When he arrived at the training ground, he was stunned. It turned out that the wisdom of the ancient Chinese was far better than that of the ancient Europeans.
, Xu Guangzu and others have also thought of all the methods that others can think of. Xu Guangzu and others can also think of methods that Europeans can't think of.
"Su Shoubei, can we practice like this?" Xu Guangzu asked Su Hao cheerfully. Of course, he didn't expect Su Hao to give any better advice. After spending so long with Su Hao, Xu Guangzu discovered that Su Hao
Hao was very smart in some things, and very ignorant in other things. At least in terms of training soldiers, Su Hao was definitely at the rookie level.
"Very good, very good. Uncle Xu, you are really the reincarnation of Sun Wu." Su Hao said sincerely. He originally wanted to say that Xu Guangzu was China's Clausewitz, but then he thought about it, why did he have to use foreigners to compare Chinese people?
Well, are Chinese military scientists not as good as foreigners?
"That's not as good as Su Shou, the reincarnation of Lu Ban." Xu Guangzu in turn complimented Su Hao, "Old man, I have lived for 60 years, and this is the first time I have seen such a good musket. If we had such a musket 30 years ago
, my old brothers might be able to live a few more years."
"Uncle Xu, please pay more attention and train these young people well. I hope these young people can survive on the battlefield in the future." Su Hao said.
Xu Guangzu shook his head and said: "Well, maybe they won't be able to fight at all. Like the last time we fought against the Japanese pirates, it was just a small fight. The real tough battle is with the Tatars and Walas. After the imperial court conferred the title of King Shunyi,
It has been almost 20 years, and there have been basically no major wars in the north. Although the Japanese pirates along the coast occasionally cause trouble, they are just ringworm and scabies and are not a serious problem. It is a pity that such good firearms are useless. "
Su Hao smiled slightly and said: "Uncle Xu is too optimistic. The battles our Ming Dynasty will fight in the future may be bigger and more cruel than before. What I worry about now is whether our soldiers will be trained in time, not how useful they will be after they are trained.
It’s useless. Let me make a bet with you. Within five years... maybe within three years, there will be a big war around the Ming Dynasty."
"Big battle? With whom?" Xu Guangzu was stunned. He was an old man in the Ministry of War and a well-informed person. If even Su Hao could foresee that a big battle was about to be fought, there was no reason for him not to know about it.
Su Hao smiled and said nothing. In fact, he didn't know who he was going to fight and when the war would start. In his vague memory, he seemed to have watched some TV series in his previous life, and it talked about the Three Great Conquests of Wanli. What were the specifics?
He couldn't remember clearly what era it happened in. Among the three major campaigns, one of the battles was against Yang Yinglong of Bozhou. Based on what Su Hao saw in Bozhou, Yang Yinglong's rebellion should be something that happened in the next few years. Calculating like this
Come, these three major expeditions should start one after another.
"You kid, your vision is different from others, maybe you have some skills." Xu Guangzu said, "Since you said there is a big battle to fight, maybe you really let your crow talk. By the way, Wang Yi'e
Is this why I rush you to organize a firearms camp?"
"Uncle Xu, please don't ask about this matter." Su Hao was very happy that Xu Guangzu would turn the object of doubt to Wang Yi'e, so that he would not be too evil. "What you have to do now is to let him know as soon as possible."
The firearms department forms combat effectiveness. Haven't you heard that sharpshooters are fed boxes of bullets... Well, don't ask what bullets are. In short, do more live-fire shooting training and don't feel bad about gunpowder.
,Understand?"
"Su Shoubei, I heard that these paper bullets are the paper bullets you just mentioned, right? Each one is worth 1 cent of silver. If you shoot 100 times, one tael of silver will be gone. Is it true?" Xu Guangzu asked
road.
Su Hao nodded. He knew the cost of bullets best. This kind of live-fire shooting training was worth a lot of money. In addition to the consumption of bullets, the barrel also has a service life. Such a big
With high-density shooting, the barrel will have to be replaced soon, and the cost is no less than the cost of bullets. However, even so, Su Hao still insists on letting the soldiers conduct more live ammunition training. This is the consciousness of a time traveler. Of course
, the premise is that he must be a relatively wealthy time traveler.
"It's about the same price, but don't feel bad. Go and fight for 2,000 taels of silver first. A soldier's life on the battlefield is much more valuable than one tael of silver, isn't it?" Su Hao said.
Xu Guangzu said: "Of course I understand this. I'm just worried that our survey camp doesn't have so much money to waste. Alas, if the generals of the Ming Dynasty could think like you, the army would not collapse to this point.
.”
Su Hao said: "Actually, if a battle is defeated, more than tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of taels of money and food will be lost. By using this money to train soldiers, we can save these losses during the war and save the lives of the soldiers. In this way
I don’t know why the people at the Ministry of War couldn’t settle the account.”
"The Ministry of War is a bunch of trash!" Xu Guangzu said angrily, "Of course, Wang Yi'e is still a man with some vision. Otherwise, he would not be optimistic about you, Su Gaizhi."
"I think I will use my future achievements to prove that he is not wrong about the person." Su Hao replied with a smile. (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!)